South of France - Art

Oil on Canvas by Carlos Carnero. He was friend and pupil of Fernard Léger and friend of the most important artist of his time, such as Picasso and Matisse. This is from his abstract ...

Oil painting, Venise landscape by the french painter Bret, Ecole de Nice. Silvered wood frame

Aquarelle sur papier, signée et datée 1937. Dimensions avec le cadre: 51x68 cm. Odilon Roche est né le 3 octobre 1868 à Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. Mort le 27 août 1947 à Six-Fours (Var...

Beautiful oil on canvas by Alfred Angeletti. dated and signed. Alfred Angeletti, Artiste peintre (1919 - 1991),

Oil on canvas, signed on the back.

He was born in Paris, the son of a conversation though open-minded middle-class family. His father runs the family business of optical equipment but he's also a theatre lover, an author and a poet. He gives his son a strict education and the boy will feel closer to his mother. Pierre De Maria will become a honest, straightforward man, uncompromising to himself and the others. He is very particular about his appearance and, as a child of the "Belle époque" takes up to a kind of dandysm. A cousin of his, Jacques Camoreyt (a pupil of Albert Maignan) teaches him how to master pictorial techniques along with the rather academic education in Arts he is going through. From 1907 to 1914 he is a student at the Lycée Condorcet, first graduates in science and languages, then at the Engineering College just before World War 1. The sight of atrocities will leave a deep scar in his memory. He has a miraculous escape from the war and finds a job in the family firm. He soon realizes he hates everything related to engineering and decides to launch on into painting. He works as a scene painter with Ronsin and Laverdet workshop and on stage with "avant-garde" drama companies. In the same time, he shows his work at the "Salon d'Automne" in 1923 an gets a honour prize in the modern painting department. In 1925 he takes up to boxing and creates some polychromatic facades with Djo Bourgeois, then gets into the Art Deco trend as an architect and a decorator. Henri-Pierre Roché, a writer (Jules et Jim) a painter and an art collector close to the cubists has already discovered talents ( Brancusi, Wols…) and takes an in interest in Pierre De Maria. Autoportrait Environ 1960 In 1926 (the "Années Folles "in Paris) Pierre De Maria meets Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi and the surrealist gang he enjoys but never joins. « They were friends and I was curious but I never liked the hint of complaisance I saw in their work. » He then starts some technical research an collages as shown in his first exhibition of "pasted gouaches" in Princess'Murat 's gallery in Paris. (« Fermé la nuit ») « I never thought I'd make money with my paintings. I took to painting as I would have taken holy orders » He works as a journalist for Marianne and Vu magazines (1932-1933) and writes a detailed report about the Maelström in Norway and the soviet Movies. He has the opportunity to meet Eisenstein and Poudovkine in Sovietic Russia and thinks of making a name for himself in the Movie industry. In 1939 Pierre De Maria meets Germaine Pellegrino who becomes his wife a year later. They'll have two sons : Jacques born 1942 and François born 1943. The family settle in Geneva at the end of 1943. During those years he writes an unpublished autobiographical novel («Tir à volonté») as well as a collection of thoughts about various topics such as war. He also writes poems and a play (as his father had done) «Cornelius'death», in a rather humorous manner. « He who conveys the opinion of fools makes certain to get the majority of votes ». In 1944 he is back in Paris, leaving his wife. He'll settle in Nice in 1953 and starts there his mechanical period with the recurrent theme of machinery in his painting. In 1958 he has his second exhibition in Paris (JC de Chaudun's gallery) and shows a series of lino-engravings done after some drawings of his: he then begins being acknowledged by his contemporaries, his fellow-painters and the Parisian artistic circle. Jacques Prévert even dedicated him a poem. («Les Machinoutis») Henri Pierre Roché, Henri-Pieyre de Mandiargues, Yves Taillandier contribute to the catalogue, well received by the press. In the meantime, he has his works exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de Mai, and the Salon Comparaison. In 1963, Flemish wood-engraver Frans Masereel, and Professor Gowa, the curator of the Offenbach Fine Arts, both introduce Pierre De Maria successfully in Germany, allowing him to become famous abroad. The Homo Atomicus Exhibition gathers 45 paintings, recounting the artist'progress over the past ten years. He's then nicknamed the «Atomic age Hyperonymus Bosch» ! In 1964, Greek gallery owner Iris Clert finds him out and helps him into a new career. He is then 68. Iris Clert, as a specialist in Contemporary Art has contributed to the coming out of the New Realism movement through her most spectacular and mediatical exhibitions. She takes a fancy to Pierre De Maria 's work : « The visit of his studio turned my love at first sight into a cutainty : he uses the technique from the Ancients to express Future. » Afterwards, both get into intense collaboration so that the painter is allowed to use the gallery owner's european and international net. In 1966, his work's dedicated a research published in Connaissance des Arts Magazine n° 70 : » A foreground study of Pierre De Maria in this month issue ». Later an article in International Art. In 1969 he turns 73 and he can see his first retrospective exhibition in Nice at the Ponchettes Gallery (about 60 paintings). At 76, he meets artist Hélène Bottet, from then on allowing humour to take over violence in his art. Machines don't frighten him anymore, he's now able to mock them even through they remain at the core of his paintings, in spite of the mechanical Art...

Oil on canvas, signed on the back.

Gouache on paper. Framed

Paper mache "Les Argonautes" Artist: JS. Ferlay Vallauris Workshop "Les Argonautes", Vallauris: Isabelle Ferlay (1917-?) And Frédérique Bourguet (1925-1997) Isabelle Ferlay and Frédérique Bourguet founded their ceramic workshop in Vallauris in 1953, which they named "Les Argonautes", in reference to the famous Greek epic. Isabelle studied painting at the Fine Arts school of Lyon in 1940, then she attended the Fine Arts in Marseille. Finally, she finished her artistic training in Montpellier, at the Fontcarade national school, where she learned ceramics. Françoise dit Frédérique Bourguet studied at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier until 1945 and it was in Sèvres, in Françoise Bizette's studio, that she trained in the art of ceramics. She created her first workshop in Paris in 1945, which she shared with Valentine Schlegel until 1951. The two women ceramicists then practiced modeling technique. It was in 1953 that she met Isabelle Ferlay and together, they decided to set up a workshop in Vallauris. They produce shaped pieces, sometimes molded, made of earthenware, enamelled in bright colors. In the 1970s they made stoneware cooked over a wood fire. Some ceramists frequented their workshop, notably the very talented Jacques Innocenti and François Raty.

Portarit of a ldy by Lucien Fontanarosa. Oil on Canvas. Fontanarosa was born in Paris in 1912 and died in paris in 1975. He was an important painter that preferered compositions with...

Couple of paintings depincting a Berber man and woman by the spanish artist ANGLADA PINTO Luis. The man is painted on panel and the woman on canvas. Both same size. Not framed. A bea...

Gouache on paper, signed lower right (1914 – 2004) Né à Paris, Pierre DE BERROETA entre à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris en 1933. Ses œuvres s’inscrivent alors...

Huile sur panneau par Peter Pàlffy, représentant des chevaux. Dimensions avec le cadre: 77x99 cm Peter Pallfy est un peintre autrichien du XX siècle que a...

Spray paint on paper. Stamped and framed. Frame dimensions: 68x85 cm Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in ...

Abstract oil by Bret (1918-2004), a painter that play an important role in the renovation of teaching Beaux arts in France after the 1968 events. it comes framed

Aquarelle par Emmanuel Costa (1833-1921) Encadré: 41x55 cm Emmanuel Louis Costa naît à Menton, de Charles et de Hyacinthe Costa le 25 décembre 1833. Il semblerait que son père, scul...

Huile sur toile. Encadré: 72x83 cm. René Burlet, peintre savoyard, est le fils unique de Frédéric, pharmacien mycologue. Il suit ses études secondaires au lycée de garçons de Chambé...

Oil on canvas. framed Gérard Souzay (né Gérard Marcel Tisserand le 8 décembre 1918 à Angers, Maine-et-Loire, et mort le 17 août 2004 à Antibes, Alpes-Ma...

Simonpietri's abstract work on paper glued to canvas. Pascal SIMONPIETRI is a painter from Corse Island, France. He is a figure very discreet of the Figurativisme Libre Mouvent durin...

Very interesting work by Bruno Mendonça, Ecole de Nice, made by paper and juta tissue. framed. signed and dated

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Gérard Souzay (né Gérard Marcel Tisserand le 8 décembre 1918 à Angers, Maine-et-Loire, et mort le 17 août 2004 à Antib...

Oil on canvas, signed top Right

Simonpietri's abstract work on paper glued to canvas. Pascal SIMONPIETRI is a painter from Corse Island, France. He is a figure very discreet of the Figurativisme Libre Mouvent durin...

Huile sur toile. Dimensions encadré: 59x68 cm

Beautiful watercolor by Alcide Teophile ROBAUDI, french painter and illustrator. Born in 1850 in Nice and dead in 1928 in Paris. Framed. Take also a look at the other watercolors of ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Framed. North Europe school.

Photograph of the french actor Lino Ventura, hand signed by Sam Levin. It comes framed Sam Lévin ou Sam Levin est un photographe français d'origine russe,...

Acrylique sur toile. Avec tampons d'exposition et garantie au dos. Par Albino Pitti

Very fascinating painting with tones of red and gold by the russian painter Andrej Smirnoff, born in 1960 and still living. Not framed.

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Alfred Angeletti (1919-1991) est né en Belgique, mais il est de nationalité française et il a vécut à Nice a partir de 1946. Etudiant, il suit conjointement, pendant quatre ans, les cours de l'Académie des Beaux Arts et de l'Institut des Arts Décoratifs du Batiment, à Liège.

Oil on canvas, signed lower left but illisible.

Lacquer painting on silver foil representing a woman resting in the wood. Art deco painting from Italian painter Cavenago. Signed low in the center. On wood panel.

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Gérard Altmann, né à Paris le 23 septembre 1923 et mort à Paris le 19 avril 2012, est un peintre français. Il est le p...

Marquetry made of many different kind of wood as listed by the artist, Jean-Luc Merigot, on the back of the panel. Né en 1950. Musicien professionnel jusqu’en 1977, il enseigne et joue la musique baroque au sein d’un trio. Il fuit Paris en 1977 et se consacre au travail du bois, des bois, d’abord sous la forme d’objets décoratifs...

Born in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersbourg, Russia) in 1937, Catherine Zoubtchenko lives in France since 1945. She was a student of the painter André Lanskoy, with whom she later share...

Oilon canvas by Jean paul Van Lith, painter and ceramist. He received the price "Chevalier des arts et des lettres"

Oil on canvas, signed top right.

A great abstract composition by the well known french painter Pierre Jourda, (1931-2007), painted in 1958. An important dimension, it is not framed. Pierre Jourda À Paris, il décou...

Oil on canvas, signed lower right

Oil on canvas. Dimensions framed: 40x35 cm. Hans Bouman (born in 1951) is a Dutch visual artist working in painting, sculpture, etching and video. He settled in Paris in 1981.

By the swedish painter Bengt Lindstrom, an abstract gouache painting on canvas from the sixties. It is signed and it is certified by the Lindstrom Committee. Framed Bengt Lindström commence sa formation artistique en fréquentant l'académie de Stockholm (1944-1945) et l'école de peinture d'Isaac Grünewald (en). Il dessine ensuite chez Aksel Jorgensen...

Gouache par Albert Chubac. Tampon de la vente de l'atelier Chubac. Encadré. Dimensions avec le cadre: 96 x76 cm. Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the...

Oil on canvas, signed lower right.

Stone sculpture, certainly travertine of Italy, signed on base Ivan Avoscan, né le 13 mars 1928 à Buxy et mort le 3 janvier 2012 à Chalon-sur-Saône, est un sculpteur français

Pastel by Charles Vasnier, a french painter, born at Caen. (1873-1961) His works are exposed at the caen Museum of Arts. With frame it measures: 74x62 cm.

Ceramic from Vallauris Workshop "Les Argonautes", Vallauris: Isabelle Ferlay (1917-?) And Frédérique Bourguet (1925-1997) Isabelle Ferlay and Frédérique Bourguet founded their ceramic workshop in Vallauris in 1953, which they named "Les Argonautes", in reference to the famous Greek epic. Isabelle studied painting at the Fine Arts school of Lyon in 1940, then she attended the Fine Arts in Marseille. Finally, she finished her artistic training in Montpellier, at the Fontcarade national school, where she learned ceramics. Françoise dit Frédérique Bourguet studied at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier until 1945 and it was in Sèvres, in Françoise Bizette's studio, that she trained in the art of ceramics. She created her first workshop in Paris in 1945, which she shared with Valentine Schlegel until 1951. The two women ceramicists then practiced modeling technique. It was in 1953 that she met Isabelle Ferlay and together, they decided to set up a workshop in Vallauris. They produce shaped pieces, sometimes molded, made of earthenware, enamelled in bright colors. In the 1970s they made stoneware cooked over a wood fire. Some ceramists frequented their workshop, notably the very talented Jacques Innocenti and François Raty.

Oil on Canvas representing in an abstract way a blue boat. The painter is a french one and originatedin Marseille.

Lot of four ink drawings by the german surrealist painter Sven Hauptmann. all signed. framed

Acrylic on canvas, signed lower left and right. Christoff, painter of the school of NICE

Drawing on paper, signed up left.

Ceramic from school of Vallauris

Oil on plywood and mixed media, signed lower right

Gouache par Albert Chubac. Tampon de la vente de l'atelier Chubac. Encadré. Dimensions avec le cadre: 96 x76 cm. Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the...

Very Big Ceramic from "Les Argonautes" Vallauris Workshop "Les Argonautes", Vallauris: Isabelle Ferlay (1917-?) And Frédérique Bourguet (1925-1997) Isabelle Ferlay and Frédérique Bourguet founded their ceramic workshop in Vallauris in 1953, which they named "Les Argonautes", in reference to the famous Greek epic. Isabelle studied painting at the Fine Arts school of Lyon in 1940, then she attended the Fine Arts in Marseille. Finally, she finished her artistic training in Montpellier, at the Fontcarade national school, where she learned ceramics. Françoise dit Frédérique Bourguet studied at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier until 1945 and it was in Sèvres, in Françoise Bizette's studio, that she trained in the art of ceramics. She created her first workshop in Paris in 1945, which she shared with Valentine Schlegel until 1951. The two women ceramicists then practiced modeling technique. It was in 1953 that she met Isabelle Ferlay and together, they decided to set up a workshop in Vallauris. They produce shaped pieces, sometimes molded, made of earthenware, enamelled in bright colors. In the 1970s they made stoneware cooked over a wood fire. Some ceramists frequented their workshop, notably the very talented Jacques Innocenti and François Raty.

Collage on paper. Signed and framed. Frame dimensions: 60x76 cm Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New ...

Mixed Media Ben, de son vrai nom Benjamin Vautier, né le 18 juillet 1935 à Naples, est un artiste français d'origine suisse. Il acquiert une certaine notoriété auprès du public dès ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower middle.

Limited edition of this licensed image of madonna en bustier. Numbered 33/950 and certificated by Z gallery and Celebrity gallery, signed by Ryan Gall and Da...

Beautiful watercolor by Alcide Teophile ROBAUDI, french painter and illustrator. Born in 1850 in Nice and dead in 1928 in Paris. Framed. Take also a look at the other watercolors of ...

a sculpture made by cut paper foils painted with gouache and posed in overlay to give the impression of a grill. Oscari Nivese is a french artist living in Cote d'Azur.